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IMPROVED KNEE-SHARPENER.

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To ALL WHoM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN O. REYNOLDS, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Knife-Sharpeners; and I do hereby .declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichl Figure 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2 the same, with a knife in the proper position to be sharpened; and

Figure 3 showing another method of securing the tool or machine when in use.

A is the bed-piece or frame, B the clamp, T the thumb-screw, C C the Sharpeners or steels, 'and D lscrews to secure the machine to a table, when theclamp and thnmb-screw are not used. Into any piece of metal' of the desired size andthickness, as shown at A, I drill two holes (to receive the steels) at the same angle .with each other as I may desire to give to the edge of the knife when used, as shown in lig. 2. Into these holes I screw the steels or sharpeners C C. These sharpeners are made of steel, round or cylindrical, and uted or milled longitudinally. They are of such a length as to form, when screwed into the frame A, a figure somewhat resembling the letter X. Asthese steels" become worn, a new surface ispresented for use giving them a slight turn by means of a wrench used upon the endsiS Sv, which are made square for this pur-` pose. The plate of metal or frame A may be secured to the table or bench by any method practicable. One method is shown atfig. 1, another at fig. 3. l

I claim as alnew article 'of manufacture- A knife-Sharpener, with two steels arranged to-turn in a stand, and present new sharpening surfaces when required, in combination with said stand and a foot and clamping-screw to fasten it to a shelf or table, substantially as described. i

- JOHN C. REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:`

I. W. MAXHAM, LEML T., TALBOT. 

